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left-of-center2012

(34,195 posts)
Thu Aug 12, 2021, 09:56 AM Aug 2021

QAnon-obsessed father thought his kids would destroy the world, so he killed them with a spear gun

Matthew Coleman was supposed to go on a camping trip with his wife and their two young children last weekend. But evil was in his midst (he said) and threatened to bring about the end of the world, he told investigators. He had to do something.

Coleman loaded his two children — a 2-year-old son and a 10-month-old daughter — into a camper van. From his home in Santa Barbara, Calif., investigators say Coleman drove south. Coleman took his children some 250 miles to Rosarito, a resort city on the Pacific coast in Mexico, just south of the U.S. border. Then, he shot each of them in the chest with a spearfishing gun, the agent said. On Wednesday, federal authorities charged Coleman, 40, with the foreign murder of U.S. nationals.

Coleman confessed to killing his children. Coleman said he had been “enlightened” by QAnon and the Illuminati. He had received visions and signs revealing his wife “possessed serpent DNA,” which she passed on to their children, according to the affidavit. By killing them, he allegedly said,
“he was saving the world from monsters. He knew it was wrong, but it was the only course of action that would save the world.”

https://www.post-gazette.com/news/crime-courts/2021/08/12/QAnon-follower-father-allegedly-kills-kids-son-daughter-spear-gun-Santa-Barbara-California-Matthew-Coleman-FBI-arrest-Rosarito-Illuminati-conspiracy/stories/202108120110

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QAnon-obsessed father thought his kids would destroy the world, so he killed them with a spear gun (Original Post) left-of-center2012 Aug 2021 OP
. Carlitos Brigante Aug 2021 #1
This is what we are dealing with. Bluethroughu Aug 2021 #2
Good excuse. I think he is setting himself up for claiming insanity. GemDigger Aug 2021 #3
I've been a lifelong staunch opponent of the death penalty and still am... hlthe2b Aug 2021 #4
Of course, if he were to meet an accident in prison, . . niyad Aug 2021 #7
I have issues with child killers/molesters. I don't care what happens to them. GemDigger Aug 2021 #8
100% same here. MuseRider Aug 2021 #9
They're just babies Deuxcents Aug 2021 #5
JFC what is going on with these idiots? Comfortably_Numb Aug 2021 #6

GemDigger

(4,305 posts)
3. Good excuse. I think he is setting himself up for claiming insanity.
Thu Aug 12, 2021, 10:08 AM
Aug 2021

I don't buy it though. I think it's cold blooded murder.

hlthe2b

(102,509 posts)
4. I've been a lifelong staunch opponent of the death penalty and still am...
Thu Aug 12, 2021, 10:11 AM
Aug 2021

But, cases like this sorely test my resolve.

It certainly does not sadden me that knowledge of him as a child-killer will necessitate he spend much of his sentence in solitary confinement--for his own protection.

GemDigger

(4,305 posts)
8. I have issues with child killers/molesters. I don't care what happens to them.
Thu Aug 12, 2021, 10:31 AM
Aug 2021

If he lives or dies as long as he is removed from society, permanently. And I don't give a crap how he is removed.

MuseRider

(34,136 posts)
9. 100% same here.
Thu Aug 12, 2021, 10:37 AM
Aug 2021

Lately there have been some hard tests to keep on the path but so far still 100% against the DP.

Personally I think the DP is too good for people like this. When you do or plan something that heinous you should have to live with that forever. At some point you would think that even the worst of them would feel some remorse even if only for their self imposed lack of freedom.

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